Sting the Touts

A short twenty minute documentary about ticket touting from the BBC-1Xtra.

What does this documentary cover?

• Who are the touts and why do they do it?
• How do they operate?
• Legality
• Are they really exploiting the fans or giving them a genuine secondary market for tickets?
• Government stance on touts
• What is being done

You can listen here. You need Realplayer installed to be able to listen.

A better alternative to Realplayer can be found here (scroll down for the download link)

Had a listen? Got an opinion? Tell us what you think. A lot of the issues raised in this mini documentary are also covered in our Q&A on ticket touting so don't forget to check that out for some more info.